> But what's the speed concerns here? This is negligable. I just double checked and each if statement takes roughly 9.8 microseconds more to execute then an elsif. That may not seem like a lot but over a program spanning several files (perhaps as much as a meg in code when finished) and using thousands of if statements there is a huge difference in the amount of time taken, esp. if it's a web program being used by a number of users simultaneously.
I also triple checked with next statements and I got a really bizarre result, they were actually slower then just using if elsifs by 17 microseconds. :: shrugs :: I guess it makes sense -- next involves extra overhead. (For what it's worth the experiment was very simple: create 3 perl scripts, one consisting of 1024 if statements, another consisting of 1023 elsif statements and 1 if, and another with the same and a last at the end of each (els)if block. I then used $ time ./test.pl for each of the scripts, and calculated how much power each statement took. (Note all statements were false)). -Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
